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Robert Scotellaro is the author of 7 flash fiction collections including most recently: Ways to Read the World (Scantic Books, 2022) and God in a Can (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022), as well as 5 collections of poetry, and several books for children. He has, along with James Thomas, co-edited New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, published by W.W. Norton & Co. His work has appeared widely, nationally and internationally, and is included in the W. W. Norton anthologies, Flash Fiction International (2015) and Flash Fiction America (2023), and in 4 Best Small Fictions and 2 Best Microfiction award anthologies. He is the winner of Zone 3's Rainmaker Prize in Poetry and the Blue Light Book Award for his fiction. Robert is one of the founding donors to The Ransom Flash Fiction Collection at the University of Texas, Austin. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife, artist and art historian, Diana Scott.

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"To read Robert Scotellaro's microfictions is to continually have a smile on your face, marveling at his humor, his wit, his inventiveness with language and story. These quick hits slap you awake with their high-wire cleverness - the hitman who spends his evenings reading to the blind, the nun with the prison tattoo, the man who visits his ex-wife in a lion's cage, the sewer worker who reinvents his life, the "dudes" in the House of Pancakes discussing infinity, high on LSD. Sheer delight!"- Charles Rammelkamp, author of A Magician Among the Spirits and Presto "Quick Adjustments, Robert Scotellaro's luminous new collection of micro-stories, demonstrates the author's unparalleled gifts for fine-grained detail and razor-sharp comedic irony, the quintessential features of the finest compressed narrative literature. In richly concise stories that range from the confessions of a failed, self-doubting fire-walker, to the fractured legerdemain of a would-be magician who sports a purloined cape and monocle, the vivid narratives in this masterful collection - sometimes bawdy, sometimes melancholy - remind us that the transcendent is often based in the commonplace and that the saddest tales of human frailty are frequently also the most comedic."- Brad Rose, author of Lucky Animals and No. Wait. I Can Explain. "I dare you to find another writer who can wow you in micro like Robert Scotellaro can, from startling starts - "He sat with his naked feet in the baby pool, a rifle on his lap, and waited for the bear" - to perfectly finessed finishes - "A snowman gaining way too much weight." In Quick Adjustments, Scotellaro deftly magics his characters onto and off of the page, leaving us marveling at their leaps and contortions. A couple who adopt monsters. A family whose backyard is pocked with craters. A one-eyed collector of dented breastplates. Scotellaro's stories are peopled by characters flying dangerously through life who we pray will somehow hit the net."- Lynn Mundell, author of Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us; editor of Centaur "In Quick Adjustments Robert Scotellaro proves once again his mastery of the short form. In the smallest spaces these tiny stories resonate with power and longing."- Sandra Arnold, author of The Bones of the Story; Where the Wind Blows


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781421835532
  • Publisher: Blue Light Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Blue Light Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 82
  • Returnable: N
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  • Weight: 186 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1421835533
  • Publisher Date: 18 Oct 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
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  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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